total nutsucker
- noun
- Offensive
- He dismissed the movie as a total nutsucker after seeing it on opening night.
Examples
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Many fans felt that the game’s ending was a total nutsucker.
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I can't believe he said that; he's such a total nutsucker.
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After waiting hours for the concert, the sound system failure was a total nutsucker.
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That movie was a total nutsucker!
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After waiting hours for the concert, the sound system failure was a total nutsucker.
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He dismissed the movie as a total nutsucker after seeing it on opening night.
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Many fans felt that the game’s ending was a total nutsucker.
Synonyms
A person who behaves in a very stupid or careless way
An insulting word for a person who acts very silly or strange
A person who is very foolish and bad at what they do
How Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
total + nutsucker
This expression relies on a slang compound ('nutsucker') that is not a productive or literal combination of clearly defined constituents for learners; the derogatory meaning is cultural and vulgar rather than compositionally predictable from 'total' + literal senses of the parts. Because the second element is nonstandard/unclear and the insult’s force and intended sense cannot be derived by a B1 learner who only knows basic word meanings, the phrase is opaque.
Etymology
The rude phrase total nutsucker probably comes from a crude image: a nutsucker was a rude word for someone who does a humiliating sexual act, and adding total makes the insult stronger. So people use total nutsucker to call someone or something 'very bad' or 'deeply disappointing'.